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But usually to covertly shorten the life span of your husband...or
to make him unattractive to other women?
Or to make your husband fat, lazy and tired so you
can stay up late and watch your own TV shows in peace?
Doesn't work. Neither does hiding an entire stick of butter in his dinner every night for months.
In the south. it was to use up the meat drippings and to stretch the meal. You would get a small portion of meat and a couple of biscuits split and covered with gravy. We ate more pork and chicken so we made milk gravy.
Brown gravy, made with red meat, also uses up the whole piece of meat. I only eat brown gravy on mashed potatoes. Mama also made meat balls in brown gravy with mashed potatoes on the side.
Gravy in a restaurant or canned gravy is not gravy. In my house, I don't even make the gravy til everyone is at the table. it has to be barely thickened, fresh and hot. By the time you have your plate filled and your biscuits split, you are ready for the gravy.
There is a reason gravy is served in a boat. It is supposed to be pourable. If you can eat it with a fork, that's not gravy.
I would never put gravy on *my* (own) mashed potatoes, I go to considerable effort to make creamy, tasty spuds, gravy would only mask the delightful flavors.
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No way I ALWAYS put gravy on my mashed potatoes, not matter how divinely the potatoes taste on their own. They're just perfect complementary flavors.
Fries, on the other hand, I eat all the time without ketchup. Sometimes I want a straight potato taste without any zingy tanginess.
I always put gravy on mashed potatoes - no exceptions. In fact, I might actually be putting mashed potatoes on my gravy.
Absolutely agreed! And in some cases, I find the actual food to be nothing more than a convenient vehicle for the gravy, much like iceberg lettuce exists for me only as a delivery device for ranch dressing.
I hardly ever even see/hear the word gravy these days. Gravy has a bad rap healthwise, so cooks have taken to calling what they serve with dry meat "sauce" to avoid the negative connotations. Same as calling Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC so people won't focus on the word "fried."
This always annoyed me when I lived with an Italian. "Gravy" = "sauce" or "marinara" to the vast majority of the population. Not everyone's from Jersey.
This always annoyed me when I lived with an Italian. "Gravy" = "sauce" or "marinara" to the vast majority of the population. Not everyone's from Jersey.
I'm part Italian, have had many friends who were Italian, but never heard spaghetti sauce referred to as gravy. When a neighbor who grew up on the west coast mentioned it, it was the first time I'd heard it.
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